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BOTTLING MACHINE. Arrucmon msu mma. 190s.

1 ,1 86,481 Patented June 6, 1916.

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BOTTLING MACHINE.

APPLICATION FILED IAII.26, 1908.

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UNITED STATES PATENT oEEIcE.

SAMUEL KAYE, F COLUMBUS, MISSISSIPPI.Y

BOWLING-MACHINE' To all whom it may concern.: Be it knownthat I, SAMUEL KAYE, a citizen of the United States, residing at Columbus, in the county of Lowndes` and Stateof Mississippi, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Bottling-Machines, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to an improvement in bottling machines.

The object and purpose of this machine is to lill the bottles las they are carried along on the conveyer, with carbonated'water, and

cap them without requiring any handling of the bottles from the time they enter the mai chine to the time they leave it, every partlof the bottling machine being wholly automatic.

With these objects in view, my present inventionconsists 1n means for feeding and placing the caps; means for filling the bottles with carbonated water under pressure and disposing of the air displaced by the liquid; means for automatically turning on and shutting off the liquid; and means for applying the cap and fastening it to the My invention further consists in certain other minor details of construction and combinations of parts which will be hereinafter described and' pointed out in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings t-Figure 1 is a view in side elevation of my improved bottling machine, the cams 40 4and 49 being cap feeding tube.

omitted. Fig. 2 is a verticalI Section of the machine,`with the cams 40 and 49 omitted. Fig. 3 is a plan view of the base. Fig. 4 is an enlarged view of one of the cap pins. Fig. 5 is a side view of one of the filling ieads and the means for operating it. Fig.

is a sectional view of one of thejilling of the cap feeding view partly in section a plan view of the mechanism. Fig. 8 is -cap hopper. Figs. 9 and 10 are fragmentary sectional views of the hopper. Fig. 11 shows one form of outlet for the Fig. 12 shows a modification of the form of outlet shown in Fig. 11; and Fig. 13 is a detail view to better illustrate the manner m which the rods carrying the filling-heads are slidably mounted inthe header.

A, represents the base of the machineand 1, 1, are uprights constituting the framework or superstructure, these uprghts be- Specication of Letters Yatent.

"Patented June 6, 1916.

Application led January 28, 1908. Serial No. 412,994.

Fig. 1, parts being level or horizontal and.

other parts more or less abruptly inclined irregular to accomplish certain urposes wh1ch will be hereinafter more lly described. VBetween these tracks the vwheels 4, 4, travel, these wheels preferably being peripherally grooved as indicated at 5, 5, whereby to recelve the vertical anges of the tracks, Hangers 6, 6, depend from the axles 7 ,'7 of the wheels and connecting rods 8,l 8, extend downwardly from a point on the lower ends of these hangers immediately beneath the wheels 4, 4, through orifices 9 and 10 formed in the anular header 11 and the annular Iguide 12, respectively, antifrictlon rollers 9 and 10a preferably being provided to prevent frictlon.. These connectmg rods 8, 8, are provided with grooves or key-ways 13, 13, adapted to receive the splines or feathers 14 which prevent the connecting rods from turning. Each connectmg rod 8 supports a filling head 15, in any approved manner, for instance as 'shown in Fig. 6, in which a plug 16 is screwed into the upper end of the filling 4head a greater or less distance whereby to regulate and vary the capacity of the plugs 1.6 are counter-bored and internally screw-threadedl at their upper ends as at 17,

17, to receive the threaded lower ends of the connecting rods 8, 8. This provision is made to compensate `for the position of the plug within the filling head in order to maintain the desired length from the point of support to thelower end of the filling head, as by turning the plug one way or the other it turns equally upon the rod and in the l]ing head, thus preserving the relative distance at all times between the filling head-and the point of support. A lock nut 19 securely locks the plug and filling head together with a packing between which prevents the escape of air or liquid through the joint thus formed. In this way, the capacity of the filling heads is not only capable of regulation, but also the length of the connecting rods remains unchanged.

The capacity of the filling heads approximately corresponds 'to the capacity of the bottles to be filled or is made to thus approximately correspond by the adjustment above described, the reason for which isreadily understood, as will be explained. An air-tight joint is formed between the bottle and filling head during the filling process and there has to 'be some place for' the air of the bottlesA displaced by the liquid to escape to, and as the carbonated water is discharged into the bottle under a pressure of about 30 pounds to the square inch or equivalent to two atmospheric pressures, the

full volume of air contained in each filling head and bottle is thereby compressed into the filling head as the bottle becomes filled. This makes room for the water `as fast as the air is displaced. This brings me to the mechanism for filling the bottles with carbonated water. A header 11 is provided with an annular channel 22 and from this channel as many hose 23 lead downwardly as there are filling heads, there being one hose for each filling head. Radial ducts 24 extend inwardly from the annular channel 22 and the branch pipes 25, 25, extend to The lower ends of the hose are connected.

to valve chambers 30 which latter communicate with the filling heads through threaded nipples 31. These threaded nipples are preferably bored out from each end, the inner end upon an incline, preferablyyso that the liquid is discharged downwardly therefrom into the mouth ofthe bottle which latter is adapted to be held just b elow the inner end of this nipple during the fillingA process as shown in Fig. 6. The

valve 32 for controlling the discharge of `liquid in filling a bottle is held closed normally by means of the spiral spring 33 coiled about its stem 34, except when the bottle is in position when the `valve is automatically opened. This is accomplished by means of a trip lever 35 which is pivotally suspended at its upper end from the guide 12 as shown at 36,v its lowerend resting Pnormally in position to be engaged and forced aside by the bottle to be filed. This trip lever is connected by means of a rod 37 to a valve operating lever 38 which latter is pivotally connected with the outer end of the valve stem 34. When the trip lever 35 is pushed aside by the bottle in entering the lower end of the filling head it tilts the valve operating lever 38 into the position shown in dotted lines in Fig. 5 which throws the lower end of said lever to the right side of the cam track 40, which latter is engaged by the anti-friction roller 50, which has i the ei'ect of forcing the lower end of said lever outwardly or to the ri ht and the un. seating of the valve 32, in w 'ch position it remains longl enough to permit a charge of carbonated water to enter and fill the bottle.

Just previous to this the neck of the bottle hasrbeen clamped into the lower end of the filling head by means of the rubber ring 41. This ring is held in a cap 42 mounted on the lower end-of the filling head just below the lannular metal flange 43 between which and the cap the rubber is-adapted tobe compressed whereby to form an air-tight connection with the neck of the bottle at a point below the bead. This compresion is accomplished by means of a pair of bell 'crank levers 44, 44,-pivoted at 4 5 at `each side of the filling heads. From the shorter ends of these bell-crank levers, links 46 extend to studs 47 on the. cap 42. The upper end is preferably provided'with the antifriction roller 48 which engages a cam rail 49 whereby in the direction'indicated by the arrow, thus lifting the cap 42 and compressing the rubber ring 41 about the neck of the bottle. In this way the leakage of gas or liquid is precluded. Of course it is understood that the operation just described is accomplished by the wheel 4 which supports the filling head, arriving at a dip in the track 3, as the filling'heads move vertically as well as in a circular orbit, whereas the bottles travel .beneath several of them during a portion of their circuit.

the lever'is swung to the left,

As the capping of each bottle is perv formed as soon as practicable after filling the bottle, the mechanism for capping will now be described.

A hopper 51 is preferably supported on a vertical column 52 from the base of the machine and from this a chute 53 leads to a position over the path of the cap'pins 54. A cup 55 is mounted on each cap pin where it is yieldingly supported by a spring 56. This cup is provided with two upwardly projecting ears 57, 57, adapted fn strip one cap at av-time from the lower end of the chute 53. The outlet of the chute at the lower end may be in various forms,

only two of which I have disclosed, one in which slots 58, 58, extend longitudinally` position to' receive the ears 57,

thereof in 57, whereby one cap is stripped from the end of the chute at a time and caught by the cup 55. In this frm, the mouth, shown in Fig. 11, is slightly constricted as at 60 to prevent a perfect cap from dropping ont,

while admitting of an imperfect or under- 'III ` in alinement with their under-sized cap to' drop ont. `Each cap pin is held on a slide 61. There are as many of these cap pins and slides as there are filling heads, one being located oppositeA or adjacent to each filling head during a portion of their travel and under the filling head during the remaining portion of travel. This is accomplished by means of the double oval cam 62 shown in Fig. 3. Each slide is provided with a projection 63 which engages the depending flange 64 of the double oval cam which these projections follow, whereby the position of the cap pins is automatically regulated. In other words,

while the filling heads travel in a circularl path, the cap. pins travel in and out of said circular path, so that they reach a point corresponding illing heads,'when the filling head is receiving a cap, and they move out of alinement therewith preceding and preparatory to the operation of filling the bottle.

Referring back to the hopper 51, 1t 1s provided with a channel 80 which leads to the chute 53, said channel being adapted to receive the Stoppers and feed them to the chute when they fall thereinto in the proper position. This channel'has a groove in the bottom of one edge large enough to receive the flange of the cap.. A sweep 82. comprising one or more arms 1s adapted to remove any caps from' the channel as it rotates in contact with them, which are not perfectly placed and alined therein as they project sufficiently above the channel to fall into the path of the sweep when not perfectly alined. p

Following the path of the cam 62, each capping pin is finally moved out to a position directly beneath its corresponding filling head as shown at the left of Figs. l and 2. At this period the wheel 4 of the filling head above the cap pin reaches a dip in the track, thus forcing the cup down and the flaring edge of the cap past the inner surface of the ring 65. This ring 65 is held in position just beneath the capping cone 66, and rigidly against the latter by means of the screws 67, the inner ends of which taper as at 69 whereby to hold the ringrigidly seated. Here the cap is held until the filling heads thus supplied with caps and prepared, travel perhaps a quarter revolution to a point where a bottle passes beneath them, when the wheel 4 reaches another dip in the track, Vforcing the filling head down until the mouth of the bottle has reached the cap and the edges of the cap are forced against the converging walls of the capping cone 66, by which means they are bent securely around and beneath the bead at the mouth of lthe bottle. This is accomplished just after the filling of the bottle and before the filling head is lifted therefrom. The capping cone 66 is held be- Thus the cap pms in turn move in and tween lugs 68, 68, grooves being formed back of the cone for any liquid which may splash up into theY and the screws 67, 67, v

fillingl head to drain down outside of the cone into the bottle.

The parts are rotated by means of a traveling conveyer which not only drives the mechanism but which also conveys thebottles through this machine which likewise has carried them from a washing machine to the machine herein described and from this machine carries them to a labeling machine without their being handled. This conveyer is `composed of trucks 70, each preferably having three anged wheels 71, 71, which travel on tracks 72, 72. Dependin from these tracks are the sprocket chain links T73 which latterengage the sprocket teeth 7 4 on the outer surface of the rotatable sleeve 85 whereby to transmit motion thereto. Four standards 86 extending from this sleeve to the top of the machine, support a plate 87 at the top, which latter in turn supports the filling apparatus. l

To briefly review the operation; the bottles are carried into the machine by the conveyer to which they are securely clamped. A cap is fed to the cap pin as shown at the right hand side of Fig. 2, the cap pin at this point being out of the path of thebottle. The valve which controls the supply of carbonated liquid is cont'olled by the bottle to be lled, and just previous to the time the bottle is filled and the filling head is lifted from the bottle by arriving at a more elevated portion on the track, the valve closes and 'shuts 0E the supply, the'neck of the bottle being released and the bottle being still held of the machine the cap plns have come into -line with the filling heads and the filling heads successively move downwardly to receive a cap from a cap pin, after which they riseupon the track and travel upon the elevated portion of the latter until they reach the point where the capping takes place.

out of alinement with the filling heads. When in alinement, the filling heads descend to receive a cap; when out of "alinement, one cap pin at a time receives a cap, while several bottles at a time are being filled with the liquid. Thus the operation continues automatically from start to finish, the caps being fed. inserted into the filling heads, the bottles being filled, valves opened and closed,

and caps applied to the bottles by various automatic operations of the machine.

From the foregoing it will be noticed that both the cap pins and the conveyer travel around the machine in ahorizontal plane, but that the filling heads while traveling in a circular orbit also rise and dip, that is to say, they rise away from the cap pins and bottles, and they also at predetermined intervals receive a cap as well as the mouth of a bottle. y

It is evident that more or v less slight changes might be resorted to in the form and arrangement of the several parts described without departing from the spirit and scope of my invention, and hence I do not wish to limit myself to the exact constructions herein set forth, but

Having fully described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

l. In a bottling machine, a plurality of bottle filling heads, means for causing the latter to travel in a circular direction, and a plurality of cap pins, which have an eccentric rotary movement in and out of alinement with the filling heads.

2. In a bottling machine, a plurality of bottle filling he.n ds, means for causing the latter to travel in a circular direction, means for imparting an upward and downward, and a plu` undulatory motion to said heads, rality of cap pins which have an eccentric rotary movement in and out of alinement with the filling heads.

3. In a bottling machine, a plurality of filling-heads, a bottle conveyer adapted to contain bottles, a plurality of cap pins, all of said parts moving continuously and automatically so that each cap out of alinement with a filling'head.

4. In a bottling machine, cap pins and filling heads, said filling heads traveling in a circular orbit, means for causing the filling heads to rise and fall at lpredetermined periods, and the cap pins traveling in an eccentric orbit in and out of the path'of the filling heads.

'5. In a bottling machine, cap pins and filling heads, said filling heads traveling in a circular orbit, means for causing the filling heads to rise and fall at predetermined periods, the cap pins traveling in an eccentric orbit in and out of the path of the filling heads, and means for successively feeding caps to each cap pin.

6. In a` bottling machine, the combination with a base, a superstructure supported thereon, of an undulatingtrack supported b v the superstructure, wheels thereon, filling heads supported by the Wheels and caused to rise and fall by the travel of the wheels upon the track, and a conveyer which carries the bottles to be filled, and which transmits motion to the moving parts of the machine.

7. In a bottling machine, the combination with a base, a superstructure supported thereon, of an undulating track supported by the superstructure, wheels thereon, filling heads supported by the wheels and caused to rise and fall by the travel of the wheels upon the track, a conveyer which carries the pin moves in and.

bottles to be filled, and which transmits mntion to the moving parts of the machina,

said conveyer comprising trucks," cups fnl'` the bottles, and a sprocket chain h engage the sprocket teeth on the machine im' transmitting motion thereto.

8. In a bottling machine a plurality of filling `heads and cap pins, they co ing in number, a circular undulating the filling heads traveling on said track in a rotary undulating path and the cap pins in a horizontally irregular path in of the path of the filling heads.

9.l In a bottling machine, the combinati@ with a base and superstructure, and In undulating superstructure, o f filling eads, rods b which the filling heads are supported, wh mounted on the track reciprocating the rods thereon, hangers extending from t e rods to the wheels, and means for 'impart' a rotary motion to the moving parts of e mnchine.

10. In a bottling machine, the combination with a base and superstruture, and an undulating circular track supported yon the superstructure, of filling heads, rods by which the filling heads are su ported, a header and guide through which. the rods slide, wheels mounted on the track, ha extending from the rods to the wheels, means for imparting a rotary motion to the movingl parts of the machine, and cap pini which move radially around an i lar guide in and out of alinement with the'lling heads.

11. In a bottling machine, the combina tion with a base-and superstructure, and an undulating circular track supported on the superstructure, of filling heads, rods by which the filling heads are su ported, a header and guide through whicli the rods slide, wheels mounted on the track, hangers extending from the rods to the wheels, means for imparting a rotary motion to the moving parts of the machine and cap pins which move radially around an irregular guide in and out of the vertical path with the filling heads. t

12. In a bottling machine, the combinacircular track Supported on the jlll) tion with a base and superstructure, and an undulating circular track supported on the superstructure, of filling heads, rods by which the filling heads are supported, a header and guide through which the rods slide, wheels mounted on the track, hangers extending from the rods to the wheels,

' turning on said threads and a the mouth thereo ,compressing the ring about the mouth of plug having a threaded orifice and a threadv ed rod which screws into said orifice for va-v rying the capacityof the lling head without changing its elevation.

la. in a bottling machine, a lling head having a threaded orifice in its upper end, a yplug adapted to screw into this orifice, said plug having a threaded orifice and a threaded rod which screws into said orifice for varying the capacity of the lling head without changing its elevation, lock nuts acking between the filling head Vand the a jacent lock nut. f

l5. In a bottling machine, the combination of a lling head, plug, and rod, the Elling head having a threaded orifice adapted to receive threads on the plug, and the plug having threaded orices adapted to receive threads on the rod whereby the capacity of the illingf head may be varied 'by turning the' lug without altering the elevation of the g head.v

16. In a bottling machine, the combination with a llin head, an elastic ring at means for automatically the bottle to be filled, said means consisting of a `cu mounted to slide on'the end of the illin ead, levers pivoted to the sides of the g head, links extending from the levers to the cup, and a cam rail in position to be engaged by the levers at intervals whereby to raise the cup and compress the ring.

17. In a bottling machine, the -combination with a filling head, means for supplying liquid thereto, of a valve, and means for 1 automatically opening the valve when a bottle is in position to be filled, said means consistingI of a spring actuated valve rod', aY

. finger.

valve operating lever, a trip lever connected therewith and in position to be operated by the bottle, and a cam trackv in position to be engaged hy one end of the valve operating .45

lever. v

18. ln a bottling machine, the combination with a rotary header having an annular channel therein, a main pipe and swivel,

and branch pipes leading from the swivel to the header, of lilling heads and hose extending from theheader to the filling heads.

19. 1n a bottling machine, the combination with a rotary header having an annular channel therein, a main pipe and swivel,

, and branch pipes leading from the swivel to the header, of lilling heads and hose extending from the header to the v filling heads,

and automatic means for controlling the discharge into the bottle.y

20. The combination with a cap-finger carrying stripping means, of a cap-chute having transverse slots therein in the path of the 'stripping means through which the latter pass -to rake a single cap at a time from the chute.

21. The combinationfwith a rotar table, avslide slidably mounted therein, an a capnger carried bythe slide, of a'cap-chute having transverse slots therein, and a capl linger ,carrying means located at the'upper end thereof in position to passA through the slots in the lcap-chute vas the table rotates for the purpose of raking a cap transversely from the chute on to the end of the 'cap- In testimony whereof l aiix my signature i in presence of two witnesses.

AMUEL KAYE. Witnesses:

WARREN M. Cox,

M. A. MHLER.` 

